Senior Sales Engineer - AI Accounts at Datadog in California

As a Senior Sales Engineer on Datadog's AI Accounts team, you'll serve as the technical lead for a small portfolio of the world's leading AI labs — accounts that today represent a meaningful share of Datadog's revenue and are growing faster than any cohort in our business. You'll own the technical relationship end to end, work shoulder-to-shoulder with customer engineering teams in production, and help define how Datadog shows up for a cohort whose buying behavior looks nothing like traditional enterprise. This team was piloted earlier this year and is now being formalized. You'll be joining early enough to shape the playbook rather than inherit one. What You'll Do Own the technical relationship across a small portfolio of AI labs, go deep on how each customer trains, serves, and scales their models (and/or the downstream products and platforms), and become the person their engineers call first Partner with your AE to drive expansion inside accounts that grow unpredictably and fast: identify new workloads and teams as they spin up, and get in front of them before a need becomes a ticket Lead discovery inside flat, engineering-led organizations where influence sits with individual contributors rather than titles, and where there are no formal scoping calls to rely on Run full-scale POVs in production rather than controlled pilots: instrument real workloads at real scale,…